Hello to all my myspace friends....

Some of you will have heard about my new venture in what are rather grandly termed ’Online Social Networks’ and indeed are onboard already as pioneers. *waves!*

If you havent yet heard about it, basically it is like a mini myspace really, within a bigger overall network called Ning (which is incidentally, Chinese for peace as in peace and quiet, apparently!).

When you join any network within the overall Ning Network you get a Ning ID...rather like your myspace username and this allows you to join other networks within Ning in much the same way as you add friends on Myspace.
The difference is that the original small network that you initally joined is in itself like myspace on a smaller scale.

Confused? I am not surprised....:-)

Right: Let us say you join my new ’network’ (R2) and obviously you create a username and password. This then becomes your Ning ID and you can sign up for any other networks that interest you using this Ning ID.

However, the network that you have joined (R2) is in itself quite self-contained, although it is still under the Ning umbrella.

Within R2 you get your own personal page - just like your myspace page - which you can customise with themes, videos, music, photos, rss feeds and so on.
You can also add friends to your page and join groups.

These groups live in R2 and are not part of the wider Ning network. Groups have their own forums and comment walls within R2.

R2 itself also has a forum and each individual member page has a blog and comment wall.

You can create photo albums in R2 and upload videos and music.

There is also the option to integrate music, video and photos within Facebook as applications but I havent delved into that one as yet!!

The subject topic of my network is "Reality TV and Leisure Pursuits".

This broadens the theme away from just Chanelle and Ziggy but we have created individual groups for Chanelle, Ziggy and Big Brother, as well as others on topics as diverse as:

Football
Music
Movies
Comedy
Gamers
TV
Fan Fiction
Dr Who
America’s Finest
and several other Reality TV genres.

Members are free to create their own groups too, so if you have a hobby or leisure pursuit that isnt already catered for..create a group for it...keep it clean as we have younger members too!!

So...if any of this has whetted your appetite and you would be interested in finding out more or perhaps you are keen to jump in right now and join??

Send me a message and I will send you an invite.

Thus far the R2 network is completely private with membership being by invitation only and requiring admin approval.

This ensures that we keep the network manageable and free from trouble caused by unknown quantitites.

Thanks for reading this and we hope to welcome a few more of you to R2 (Reality 2.0 to give it its full name) in the near future.

Julia xxx

Have been a BB fanatic since BB3, but am very disappointed this year. Loved Chiggy, and was very upset when Chanelle left. I am delighted she is doing so well out of the House, but would love her to pop back in to cheer up Ziggy, and silence Carole!! Carole has ruined this year's BB for me, but the other HMs and BB themselves have allowed it to happen. I dont really care who wins at this point. It would be Ziggy if he would stop crawling around Carole. It is really nauseous and unnecessary. Ah well, maybe next year's CBB will be better!